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Dog Will Have His Day by Fred Vargas
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Shortlisted for the CWA International DaggerHOW DO YOU SOLVE A MURDER WITHOUT A BODY?Keeping watch under the windows of the Paris flat belonging to a politician's nephew, ex-special investigator... -
Simenon: The Man, The Books, The Films: A 21st Century Guide by Barry Forshaw
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The legendary Georges Simenon was the most successful and influential writer of crime fiction in a language other than English; Andre Gide called him 'the greatest French novelist of our times'. ... -
The Military Philosophers by Anthony Powell
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English... -
The Grifters Jim Thompson 9780752879598
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Reissue of a true classic - 'One of the toughest crime novels ever' (Newsweek).'Jim Thompson is the best suspense writer going, bar none' NEW YORK TIMESRoy Dillon is young, good-looking and... -
Varese: A Looking-Glass Diary by Louise Varese 9780393336160
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorLouise Varese was an American biographer and translator of French. She is known for her translations of... -
A Climate of Fear by Fred Vargas
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15*Featured in The Times top ten crime novels of the decade*THE NEW INSPECTOR ADAMSBERG NOVELShortlisted for the CWA International Dagger 2017A woman is found dead in her bath. The murder has been... -
Grey Mask Patricia Wentworth 9781473673953
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02CLASSIC GOLDEN AGE MYSTERY PERFECT FOR FANS OF AGATHA CHRISTIEMiss Silver must foil a plot to murder a beautiful young heiress'Ranks with the best of the golden-age detectives' Daily MailFurious at... -
Grey Mask by Patricia Wentworth 9780340767900
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Furious at being jilted at the altar by Margaret Langton, Charles Moray left England behind him. Four years later he returns only to discover that a criminal gang has been using his house to plan a... -
Translating National Allegories: The Case of Crime Fiction by Alistair Rolls
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.66This book explores the intersection of a number of academic areas of study that are all, individually, of growing importance: translation studies, crime fiction and world literature. The scholars... -
Danger Point Patricia Wentworth 9781473673892
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02CLASSIC GOLDEN AGE MYSTERY PERFECT FOR FANS OF AGATHA CHRISTIEThe first wife died suddenly. Without Miss Silver's help, the new bride may be about to meet a similar fate'Ranks with the best of the... -
Fellow Passenger by Geoffrey Household
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A brilliant story of espionage and disguise from the original master of spy fiction.From the author of the modern classic ROGUE MALEClaudio Howerd-Wolferstan is neither a communist nor a spy. Yet he... -
Ladies' Bane Patricia Wentworth 9781473673922
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02CLASSIC GOLDEN AGE MYSTERY PERFECT FOR FANS OF AGATHA CHRISTIEMiss Silver must unravel a tangled web of marriage, mystery and murder'Ranks with the best of the golden-age detectives' Daily MailNo one... -
Black Money by Ross MacDonald
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'I can't make your girl come back if she doesn't want to. I told you that on the phone' But something changes...'The finest series of detective novels ever written by an American' William Goldman'A... -
The Secret of Elizabeth: A masterpiece of psychological suspense Vera Caspary 9781471920905
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40A beautiful woman - with no memory - and the people who claim to know her may not have her best interests at heart...'Vera Caspary is an expert at suspense and suspicion' New York TimesKate and Allan... -
No Fury by Margaret Yorke 9781471914874
Booksplease Price: £16.99It should have been her sanctuary - until things got murderous...'Few authors are better than Margaret Yorke in generating a real sense of fear' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'The mistress of unease' DAILY... -
Spotlight Patricia Wentworth 9781473673939
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02CLASSIC GOLDEN AGE MYSTERY, PERFECT FOR FANS OF AGATHA CHRISTIEWhen a blackmailer is stabbed at his own celebration, Miss Silver must find the guilty party'Ranks with the best of the golden-age... -
Beast In View Margaret Millar 9781780220222
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02She was beautiful and evil - she murdered minds as well as bodies...'A work of art - terrifyingly believable' NEW YORK TIMES'Superb ... BEAST IN VIEW is cunningly plotted and has an ingenious final... -
Miss Pinkerton Mary Roberts Rinehart 9781471920837
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'A literary celebrity with few rivals ... she wrote more bestselling novels ... over a longer period than almost any other American writer' WASHINGTON POSTEveryone agrees that Herbert Wynne wasn't... -
Deceiving Mirror by Margaret Yorke 9781471914898
Booksplease Price: £18.18'A star in our galaxy of crime writers' FINANCIAL TIMESSuperb crime fiction from the CWA Diamond Dagger Award Winner'Yorke practised deception artfully and with style' GUARDIAN'Mistress of the... -
The Killer Inside Me Jim Thompson 9780752879581
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02THE KILLER INSIDE ME has been a cult classic since its first publication in 1952. Also a major motion picture starring Casey Affleck, directed by Michael Winterbottom.'Probably the most chilling and... -
The Scent of Fear by Margaret Yorke 9781471914911
Booksplease Price: £16.99She lost her memory - will she lose her life? Superb crime fiction from 'A star in our galaxy of crime writers' FINANCIAL TIMES'The mistress of unease' DAILY TELEGRAPHMrs Anderson is starting to... -
The Case of the Duplicate Daughter: A Perry Mason novel by Erle Stanley Gardner
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'For fans of classic hard-boiled whodunits, this is a time machine back to an exuberant era of snappy patter, stakeouts, and double-crosses' LA Times 'Kingpin among the mystery writers' New York... -
The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Corruption, murder, beauty and innocence . . . 'Great crime fiction started with Hammett' James Ellroy'Not just the first of the tough school of crime-writing but the best' THE TIMESNed Beaumont is a... -
People to Be Loved: Why Homosexuality Is Not Just an Issue by Preston Sprinkle
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Christians who are confused by the homosexuality debate raging in the US are looking for resources that are based solidly on a deep study of what Scripture says about the issue. In People to Be... -
Summer Flight by Margaret Yorke 9781471914935
Booksplease Price: £18.18A bank holiday - memorable for murder...'Few authors are better than Margaret Yorke in generating a real sense of fear' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'A star in our galaxy of crime writers' FINANCIAL TIMESIt's... -
Striding Folly: Lord Peter Wimsey Book 15 by Dorothy L. Sayers
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Dorothy L Sayers' amateur sleuth returns in this collection of three stories, featuring a brand new introduction from crime writer Catriona McPherson. A must-read for fans of the inimitable Lord... -
More Good Old Stuff by John D. MacDonald 9781471913341
Booksplease Price: £18.18Offering indisputable evidence of the early talent that was to lead him to the top of the bestseller lists everywhere, these fourteen tales of crime and corruption, of sleuthing and suspense, of... -
Busman's Honeymoon: Lord Peter Wimsey Book 13 by Dorothy L. Sayers
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The thirteenth book in Dorothy L Sayers' classic Lord Peter Wimsey series, introduced by crime writer Natasha Cooper - a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion... -
The End of the Night by John D. MacDonald 9781471911644
Booksplease Price: £16.21Three men and a beautiful girl on a cross-country terror spree - a coast to coast rampage of stealing, kidnapping, rape and killing.Who were they? Where did they come from? Why did they do it?With... -
On the Run by John D. MacDonald 9781471911767
Booksplease Price: £16.21Sid Shanley couldn't stay in one place very long. He had to keep on the run, changing towns, changing jobs, changing women. He worked out the perfect setup - no attachments, no trails, no... -
One Monday We Killed Them All by John D. MacDonald 9781471911682
Booksplease Price: £16.21Step by step, Dwight McAran built a wall of vicious hate around himself. It was easy. He was a man who could slap one woman to death because she loved him, and hum a love song to another while he... -
Murder Must Advertise: Lord Peter Wimsey Book 10 by Dorothy L. Sayers
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.78'Think MadMen in prewar London' The GuardianThe tenth book in Dorothy L Sayers' classic Lord Peter Wimsey series, introduced by bestselling crime writer Peter Robinson - a must-read for fans of... -
The Drowner by John D. MacDonald 9781471911781
Booksplease Price: £16.21Lucille Hanson had rid herself of the wrong man - her rich husband who lived casually and loved carelessly. Then she found another man she hoped would be right. She was putting together the pieces of... -
The Price of Murder by John D. MacDonald 9781471911446
Booksplease Price: £16.21On the surface, they seem like three very different people: Danny Bronson, a cunning ex-con struggling to go straight; his brother, Lee, a former Gridiron star turned college professor; and Johnny... -
Dread Journey by Dorothy B. Hughes 9781471917370
Booksplease Price: £18.18One-way ticket to death . . .? 'Hughes is the master we keep turning to' Sara Paretsky'The tension and terror of Dread Journey are such that few will be able to lay the book down unfinished' New York... -
Lion in the Cellar by Pamela Branch 9781471912283
Booksplease Price: £14.24Other than her Uncle George, Sukie was the only member of the notorious Heap family who was still at large. Her great-grandfather, who had invented a particularly nasty machine gun, was immortalised... -
Hangman's Holiday: Lord Peter Wimsey Book 9 by Dorothy L. Sayers
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.06The ninth book in Dorothy L Sayers' classic Lord Peter Wimsey series, introduced by crime writer David Mark - a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion... -
In the Teeth of the Evidence: Lord Peter Wimsey Book 14 by Dorothy L. Sayers
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Dorothy L Sayers' amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey returns in this collection of mysteries, introduced by crime writer Elizabeth George. A must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery... -
The Crossroads by John D. MacDonald 9781471911583
Booksplease Price: £16.21More than half a century ago, Papa Drovek opened his small grocery store at the junction of two country roads. As he bought more and more land, the roads became highways, and now the Droveks own a... -
The Deceivers by John D. MacDonald 9781471911484
Booksplease Price: £15.23Her name was Cindy, and she was his neighbour's wife - the woman next door in the kind of suburbia that didn't make headlines. These were real people, nice people like Cindy and Carl who fought with...